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Stain v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 21, 1961No. 1 Div. 827PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

Appellant was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Mobile .County, Alabama, of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death by electrocution. This appeal comes here under the Automatic Appeal Statute, Sec. 382(1) of Title 15, Code of Alabama 1940 (Cum. Pocket Part).

Thomas R. Stain, the defendant in the lower court and hereinafter referred to as appellant, killed one Bernon T. Jenkins by shooting him with a pistol-on the night of December 6, 1958.

Jenkins was the manager of the Food Town Store on Old Shell Road in Spring Hill, Mobile County,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Payne v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
  3. Collins v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1902
  4. Cassemus v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
  5. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1950

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3Cited by29 opinions

  1. Carroll v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1992
  2. Beecher v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975
  3. Arthur v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1996
  4. Nix v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
  5. Ex Parte WilhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1986

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